The other day during a morning walk around Colindres, I found this very waterlogged album cover lying on the wet pavement. So I took a photo and forgot about it until today. Using the all-knowing internet tubes, I’ve found some information about the album.

Portuguese-born Wanda Ribeiro de Vasconcelos is better known as 80s Belgian pop sweetheart Lio. ‘Bébé Vampire’ appeared on Lio’s 1980 debut album, released in 1980, and like most of the songs on that album, was created by celebrated Belgian songwriter Jacques Duvall. Duvall was also wrote her infamous, 2-million-selling ‘Banana Split’, which she says, like France Gall with ‘Les Sucettes’ before her, she was too innocent to understand the double entendre behind.

Less than a fortnight ago, someone posted this classic song to YouTube for your “enjoyment”. Ahhh, 80’s europop…

I was prodded into trying Last.FM again yesterday. As some of you may recall, I tried it last year and reviewed it in passing on my way to another conclusion: The absolute simplest way to blog your current song is to use Last.FM. They give you an application that you run on your computer (it […]

The picture may be somewhat similar, but the talent is a world apart. Linda Ronstadt has been thrilling audiences since the early 70’s. I have her greatest hit cd in my work player right this very minute. By the way, The Eagles were her backup singers before launching their own modest career. I’m guessing that Jane’s mom and I are of the same generation :~)